Health data is increasingly seen as a highly valuable commodity to be traded and collected by companies to fuel their analytics or advertising. The power and control these companies have over our ...

Immunity passports could involve the restricting peoples' liberties of individuals on the basis of their' immunity status, or lack of it. Quarantining is a significant interference with rights, which ...

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Who are the workers behind the training datasets powering the biggest LLMs on the market? In this explainer, we delve into data labeling as part of the AI supply chain, the labourers behind this data ...

We all want a future where our families, friends, and communities can thrive — one rooted in justice, democracy, with social and political stability. But instead of heading toward that future, we’re ...

Freedom of Information (FOI) requests have revealed the rapidly increasing scale of UK police mass facial recognition searches against the passport and immigration databases. The Government has ...

Companies selling diet programmes are using tests to lure users. Those tests encourage users to share sensitive personal data, including about their physical and mental health. But what happens to the ...

After a 8 year legal battle following from Snowden's disclosures, the European Court of Human Rights Grand Chamber ruled that mass surveillance violates the right to privacy and free expression. Eight ...

A case study illustrating the use and looming dangers of collection and use of biometrics in the name of counter-terrorism. In Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. Department of Defense developed its ...

The GDPR came into effect on 25 May 2018, and reformed and replaced data protection law across Europe. Before the GDPR, data protection in the EU was governed by the 1995 Data Protection Directive, ...

PI, Worker Info Exchange, and App Drivers and Couriers Union have teamed up to challenge the unprecedented surveillance that gig economy workers are facing from their employers. Key findings The ...

With more and more connected devices around us, the chance that you've been hit by an update notification is high. But what do these software updates do? How do they actually work, and why are they ...